Jon Meis, a student working as a building monitor, pepper-sprayed the shooter who had paused to reload his shotgun. Say whatever else you will, that was clear-headed AND ballsy. Good going Mister Meis.

This shooting was at my alma mater. It's bizarre. Someone from Mountlake Terrace travels 20 or 30 minutes out of his way to a small Christian campus with a shotgun and a knife to a place where he isn't a student to kill people. There were dozens of much easier targets closer to the shooter's home, including other university campuses.

It's not surprising that the shooter was quickly taken down. As university campuses go, SPU is fairly conservative, much more so than the surrounding community. Someone fought back. One person is still dead, but it could have been more.

And once again we have a random mass shooting in which there is a report of a second shooter, with a detailed description of the shooter going out, which is later withdrawn.

How long until we find out that the shooter was on psychotropic medications?

Glenn, you are are as aware of the need for precision and accuracy in language as anyone; but you have a lapse in this bit. "Gunman" is a word created by the Left which attempts to link being armed with being a murderous criminal - as if everyone with a gun is a murderer. Don't fall into their trap. The guy is a "murderer" and a "criminal" and he is completely unlike the millions of peaceable citizens who carry firearms every day.

Ever notice that the same press whose own style guides explicitly forbid calling a policeman a policeman is quick to repeat the sexist label "gunman" over and over again?

Just look around you. Men who rescue and protect others are neutered by the press. Only the few men who do bad are trumpeted by the press as "men". Now ya gots ta ask yerself, do you still think feminism is about anti-sexism and equality?

I don't know why more people don't carry a "mugger fogger" wherever they go. Pepper spray is very effective, not only for stopping bears, but a good shot in the face, even from a distance away will slow down a person with a gun or a knife. It blinds them, long enough for others to step up and help.

If this was Massachussetts I doubt the student would have had pepper spray. Pepper spray in the Great People's republis is a registered item. Onerous to procure compared to other states where the sale is free & open.

'Speaking on campus Thursday evening, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray thanked the first responders (like the young man who disarmed the murderer, or the guys in the MRAP's?) and spoke about what he called an "epidemic of gun violence" in the city.' (huh. I guess criminals don't obey the laws. Who'd a thunk it?)

Mary Jones was on campus Thursday to help her daughter move out. While grateful that her own child wasn't hurt, she wonders what can be done to stop further shootings.

"Where are the controls to keep our children from purchasing a handgun or any other kind of weapon? (like the pepper spray used by the hero to take down the murderer?) And does that take government controls to keep that from happening? (like all the strict gun laws already on the books in Seattle?). I don't know," she said. "There has to be a greater understanding of what that weapon can do (duh) and the pain it can inflict on another person's life." (Pain? As in bodily harm, or the wounding of your limited intellect?)

Sorry to harp on this, but this woman is a very special kind of stupid:

-Where are the controls to keep our children from purchasing a handgun (never mind the murdered used a shotgun) or any other kind of weapon (like the knife or the BMW Elliott Rodger used in Santa Barbara)?

How about raising your children properly?

-And does it take government controls?

Only if you're an incompetent parent. And even then, Big Brother can not prevent lunatics from being lunatics, or criminals from being criminals.

He was lucky this guy didn't know anything or give his action any real forethought. Apparently, he comes in, confronts three students and shoots them, then goes to reload. In typical incompetent journalist fashion, they offer no details about the shotgun such as gauge or type. So we can only surmise the shooter had single-shot, a double-barrelled or forgot to take the magazine plug out of his pump or auto as most of those with a standard magazine hold 5 shells. As he was able to be rushed, I suspect the shotgun was a break-barrel as a pump or auto can have a shell in the chamber pretty quickly.

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